you don't need to use shadows to challenge Reptile. You must get a double flawless victories and then do a fatality.

You can fight Reptile in that version insidious_t, but you have to play over 40 matches without quitting the game. That's because a shadow flies over the moon every 8 cycles of stages. And since The Courtyard is always the first, count that background 8 times and next time The Pit shows up, something will glide over the moon. That's your chance. Also, keep in mind that those all fights don't have to be successive and you can use continues during the cycles.


The only version that don't require the shadows flying over the moon is the SNES one. Other versions DO require that.

thanks. that makes sense. i usually turned the game off after seeing an ending or two, so that's why i haven't seen any shadows. thanks for the help.

No problem. I'm glad I could help.

Well it would had been cool to have him appear and give out clues but i understand now why he doesnt..What puzzles me is this is suppose to be a exact emulation of the mk 1 arcade game and in the arcade game reptile pops up to give clues..

That's because Reptile's clues were added in version 4.0 of the game and the one on the MKD bonus disc is version 3.0, which has Reptile, but he doesn't show up in before the fights.

Oh, i see, i wished the mkd would had been version 4.0 instead, i think it was a bad move adding 3.0 because i feel that having reptile giving clues before fights adds a special mysticism to the game..

thats actually not true, the revision in the bonus disk is 4.0 or later, because you cant do the infinite juggles you could in revision 3.0

you have the reptile clues and 2players options in both ps2 and xbox versions.

I never seen reptile giving clues in xbox and ps2..

Actually, THAT isn't true The MK1 versions on MKD bonus disc and MAT can't be 4.0 or higher. First of, the clues...


Me neither (MAT included). And I've played the game for a long time. Once, I've played a couple of hundred fights without turning the game off. During that session I've fought Reptile many times and I've seen every possible object gliding over the moon. However, the green ninja hasn't appeared with a clue even once! So psykosonik, have you ever seen him doing that in the said version of MK1?

Second of, in 4.0 they allowed using Block during Fatalities, so you could fight Reptile with Sonya. But in the bonus disc/MAT version you can't have the lady fighting at the bottom of The Pit, exactly because of the Block.


So it looks more like a revision 3.0 to me, even though they patched the gameplay. But it would probably be safer to assume that it's not the perfect port of one particular arcade revision, but just another version prepared for that special occasion.

they patched gameplay but forgot to fix reptile stuff... plus i played both versions, and reptile gived me clues in 2 players ps2 game. i havent played that much the xbox version.

when i have some free time to waste i will cap clip of it from the ps2 version, since i dont have xbox anymore.

i never saw clues either, tho i did finally fight him. this was in one player mode. haven't played it 2 player.

i have herd rumors about unlocking reptile in the first mortal kombat for genesis. but can you? reptile is extremly hard to beat i had to use a cheat to get to him.

Reptile's not playable in any version of MK1.
Anyway, I think the thread has served its purpose, so I'll just close it.